On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 19:52 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > >I need to look more into it, but before I start the long and arduous > >"googling my life away" process, I figured someone might know the > >answer. I've read the man pages several times and they didn't change! > >:-( > > > >As normal, while looking at one thing, something else bites my butt. I > >tuned on the swap field in top and sort on it. Here's an edited snippet > >of the results. > > > >Mem: 775708k total, 764752k used, 10956k free, 60780k buffers > >Swap: 1572856k total, 160k used, 1572696k free, 377324k cached > > > > PID VIRT RES SHR %MEM SWAP COMMAND > >24729 127m 32m 15m 4.3 94m evolution > > 3409 97220 5268 4304 0.7 89m evolution-data- > ><snip> > >Now, if I treat all those numbers ending in "m" as megabytes, it doesn't > >take long to see that I've been lied to somewhere along the way. Or > >alternatively, I'm dense and "Just Don't Get It" (TM). > > > >Any help? > > > > > Looked at the same top info, and I don't understand what I see either. > With processes running, I'm seeing close to 500mb of stuff swapped out, > but according to free, only the 2.2 mb is swapped. There's gotta be > more to this than meets the eye, or something is lying about the swap. > The system monitor also shows only 2.2mb of swap in use, so where is top > getting this 500+ mb of swap data from? I suspect Kai and Les have hit on it. I first thought it sounded like a bug, now it may be only a "bug" in documentation not telling it like it is. > <snip sig stuff> I'll tell you one theory I had earlier today. What if the summary line was reporting "pages" swapped? At 4K/page time 160,000 it cam awful close to matching the total of all the individual entries under the "SWAP" column. I had though I was onto something. If someone's on an arch with other than 4K page size, ... It was tempting, yes it was. Fortunately, I decided to *ask* rather than *propose*. So I seem only half as much and idiot as I might have seemed (I hope)! -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060605/2cd566f8/attachment-0004.sig>